Immersive Arts
On day two of re:publica, stage 9 will dedicate itself to virtual worlds. The concept of complete immersion into artificial worlds is not a new one. Texts, films, video games, and performance pieces all aim to engulf their audience. VR, on the other hand, is still struggling to mature. Technological standards are developing at a dizzying pace, but VR hasn’t quite reached mainstream appeal. After years of experimenting, we want to know: what’s the status quo, what part can VR technologies play, and where are we experiencing its limitations?
Deeply familiar with this not-so-new medium, our participants come from diverse fields of study and include journalists, editors, screenwriters, photographers, performance artists, and theater producers. By offering nuanced insight into their experiences, they will discuss various perspectives on the uses, necessities, and concrete possibilities of this promising technology.
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The Berlin based artist group Costa Compagnie took up the subject of oil and conducted interviews in Norway and Iraq, while filming with a 360°-camera, in order to use the footage in an immersive cyclorama-stage and a VR-film. At re:publica 18 the artists will present a summarizing video of their performance series EMPIRE OF OIL and also engage in dialogue with their audience about war and art, crisis and consumerism, VR and reality.
- Media & JournalismImmersive ArtsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Germany (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE)-360° video is no longer strange and exotic in the media cosmos. The podium experts use VR technology in crisis regions of the world to show the situations from a new perspective. Of course, VR is not the cure-all for every situation. In the discussion we want to show what possibilities and limits 360° videos have in perception of foreign places. Almost every month new devices are launched, which technical features make a 360° film particularly immersive and which technology can be recommended for VR newbies?
- Arts & CultureImmersive Arts-Bei diesem re:publica Virtual Reality Meetup können sich alle Besucher treffen, die Interesse an einem Austausch von Ideen und Erlebnissen zum Thema "Kunst, Kultur und immersive Medienformen" haben.
- Science & TechnologyImmersive ArtsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Germany (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE)-Spatial-Computing-Technologien wie Virtual (VR) und Augmented Reality (AR) stellen nicht einfach nur eine Fortentwicklung des Computer-Interfaces dar, sondern markieren den Beginn einer neuen Computer-Ära, in der digitale Virtualität selbstverständlicher Teil des Alltags und Realitätserlebens wird. Deshalb müssen wir verstehen, was Virtualität ist und wie sie im Alltag wirkt.
- Science & TechnologyImmersive ArtsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Germany (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE)-Manche Menschen leben schon heute mehr in der Virtuellen Realität als im so genannten „echten“ Leben. Doch diese Unterscheidung ist relativ, wie meine große Recherche 2017 sowohl in VR als auch aller Welt ergeben hat. Die Menschen machen das, was Forscher für die Zukunft vorhersagen: wir werden wählen zwischen Realitäten, in denen wir uns aufhalten. Die Virtuelle ist keine zweite-Klasse-Realität. Wie fühlt sie sich an für die Menschen, die sie schon jetzt ihrem echten Leben vorziehen?